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TWO VIEWS: Don't bloat bureaucracy to crusade against expanded … - Fresno Bee (subscription)- Childhood Obesity News

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WASHINGTON — The Washington Post recently featured a weeklong, front-page series devoted to the pernicious effects of the increase it perceived in children’s obesity. The article, headlined "Inertia at the Top," relied on critics who believe that efforts to stop this perceived crisis "suffered particularly from inadequate direction and dollars at the federal level. Keith of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and others outlines evidence that many factors, such as decreased sleep time, decreased smoking, changes in distribution of ethnicity and age, increased ages of mothers at the time they give birth and other shifts in how we live our lives are likely explanations for part of the statistical phenomenon indicating average weight gains. The campaign for anti-obesity legislation amounts to an effort to control the food people eat through federal propaganda, legislation and regulations relating to eating hamburgers, steaks or desserts. Proponents of lifestyle changes at the behest of the federal government want a host of extensive programs, with their attendant resource needs and bureaucracies. Read Childhood Obesity

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